[Luis:] As promised, here is part 2 of Brian Cooke’s take on The Life. … [Brian:] Get more Support I had only been working on rooVid for a few days when I came across Luis’ WebnoteHappy Lite public beta. I was the perfect customer for WebnoteHappy and I realized that quickly. After playing with the …

[Luis:] I’ve been getting a good number of visitors reading about The Life, so I thought I’d get some other folks to offer their perspectives on living It. Brian Cooke is a good friend of mine. He has started doing The Life part-time with his software company RoobaSoft. He’s written a cool and free Mac …

That trip I took last week really took me out of my regular development rhythm. So today I made a small beta release of WebnoteHappy. Only a few things changed, but I think its important to get in a rhythm and stay in it. Even if it is only a small change, its good to …

Today I took a day off of work, partly to decompress after a week long trip to California for a conference, partly to spend some more time with my family, and partly to live another fully day in The Life. So I had visions of getting a huge amount of work done and getting closer …

I just released WebnoteHappy Lite 1.1! What’s new in 1.1? First, it is a Universal binary, so it runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. It ran fine in Rosetta, but I think it is important to be Universal. Second, it is now localized for French, Dutch, and Danish. Now even though we call …

I’m attending a conference this week in Santa Clara, CA. Also my oldest son had his birthday party on Saturday. Packing and traveling took up most of the day on Sunday. And the conference is pretty packed full of activities, starting at 8:30 in the morning and not finishing until 5pm. Though tonight I was …

Gus pointed me to a post about Entrepreneurial Proverbs and in one of the comments that was a link to a really good article that resonated with me: Top Signals of Success for Software Entrepeneurs from OnStartups.com. It is a list of 15 traits that successful software entrepreneurs share. Now I think its healthy to …

One of the things that’s a reality is that business is risky. But one of the ways to reduce that risk is to form an LLC, a Limited Liability Company. Yes, that’s right – it basically means Reduce Your Risk Company. It is especially helpful if you have any type of assets. That is why …

Congratulations to Brian Cooke, a good friend and the guy behind roobaSoft! He is taking his first steps in The Life. He released rooVid Lite 1.0 yesterday. It lets you convert iMovies and other video to other video formats. For example, you can take a home movie and convert it to both playable on a …

Steadily cranking away at WebnoteHappy, the full featured shareware version. I’m nearing feature completion, which is a good thing. Starting to put additional features on the post-1.0 queue. Not making as much progress as when I was doing The Life full-time, but still making steady daily progress. Kaizen. So in a week and a half, …